Dishes named after images emphasize the image characteristics of dishes, arouse people's curiosity, and pay attention to the artistic modeling effect of dishes, such as lion's head, dragon boat, squirrel fish, gourd duck and so on.
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The naming of dishes is also skillful. Here are some methods for your reference.
The naming of dishes is often directly related to raw materials, cooking methods, colors, textures, tastes and physical characteristics, and sometimes has a great relationship with historical allusions and local characteristics, such as:
The highest rank of the Chinese empire
This refers to the highest rank in feudal society, such as Taishuai, Taibao, Taiwei, Situ and Sikong. They are all official residences, and the catering industry often uses these words to describe the expensive and advanced dishes, such as a bird's nest and a crisp square.
Academic titles awarded to the top three candidates in the three-level examination
Take the meaning of three yuan auspicious. In ancient times, some people used heaven, earth and people as ternary elements, and some people used the first day of the first month of each year as ternary elements, meaning to wish a happy New Year and all the best. Sanyuan refers to three kinds of raw materials, such as Sanyuan white sauce duck and Sanyuan fish sauce.
Sixi
It refers to making four kinds of raw materials into four shapes with equal weight and putting them into a container. For example: Sixi Shrimp Cake, Four Joy Meetballs. Four happiness also refers to the four things that people should celebrate most. In the past, the four happy events in life were: the long drought, the reunion with the old friends, the wedding night and the nomination of the Academy Awards. It is now used in the name of a dish, meaning to wish people good luck.
kylin
Legend has it that a noble animal is shaped like a deer, with a single horn and a tail like an ox, and is often used as a symbol of good luck. This is often used as a dish name in the catering industry, which means auspiciousness, such as Kirin mandarin fish.
Lovebirds
The name of the bird, the male is a honeymoon, and the female is a honeymoon. It is as small as a duck with a flat and short mouth. Males have beautiful feathers, while females are all light brown. The catering industry often names the dishes with paired colors, tastes and raw materials as Yuanyang, such as Yuanyang hot pot, Yuanyang sea cucumber and so on.
There are also eight treasures, hydrangea (shark's fin, sea cucumber), crystal (duck noodles, chicken), jade (shrimp), three delicacies and so on.
There are also some examples of using other methods:
Named after an image
This is the effect of emphasizing the image characteristics of dishes, arousing people's curiosity and paying attention to the artistic modeling of dishes, such as lion's head, dragon boat to send treasures, squirrel fish, gourd duck.
Named after a vegetarian dish.
This is to make the dishes look like meat dishes, satisfy the psychology of a few people and enjoy the delicious food, such as vegetarian sea cucumber, vegetarian chicken, vegetarian fish balls and vegetarian fish.
Name containers after fruits and vegetables.
Make the fruit and vegetable vermicelli into the shape of a container for holding vegetables, which is both a container and food, such as watermelon cups, wax gourd cups and fishing boats singing late.
Named after the combination of Chinese and western.
Emphasize the use of western-style raw materials or western-style cooking methods. Eating Chinese food reflects the taste of western food, such as Thousand Island beef, Geely shrimp steak, scallop sauce, steak pudding and French pork chop.